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Solicitors Act 1974

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The roll

6Keeping of the roll

(1)The Society shall continue to keep a list of all solicitors of the Supreme Court, called " the roll".

(2)The roll may be kept by means of a computer.

(3)If the roll is kept by means of a computer, the Society shall make any entry available for inspection in legible form during office hours, without payment, by any person who applies to inspect it.

(4)If the roll is not kept by means of a computer, any person may inspect it during office hours without payment.

7Entry of name and restoration of name struck off

On production—

(a)of an admission of any person as a solicitor signed by the Master of the Rolls or a judge acting for him under section 3(2), or

(b)of an order for the restoration to the roll of the name of a person whose name has been struck off it,

and on payment to the Society of such fee not exceeding £15 as the Council may from time to time determine, the Society shall enter the name of that person on the roll.

8Removal or restoration of name at solicitor's request

(1)The Society, on the application of a solicitor, may remove his name from the roll.

(2)The Society, on the application of a former solicitor whose name is not on the roll because it has been removed from it, may enter his name on the roll, on payment to the Society of such fee not exceeding £15 as the Council may from time to time determine.

(3)The power to enter a name on the roll conferred on the Society by subsection (2) includes power to enter the name of a person whose name was removed from the roll before the coming into force of section 5 of the [1974 c. 26.] Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1974.

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